Soul Arts

Catching Up On Commitments

Some time ago I organised to host a swap project.. which is now complete.. cept for me.. am embarrassed to admit that I am waaaaay behind (no mojo, then surgery, then a studio in limbo).. but am now finally catching up...

Studio is still a shambles with loads of stuff I am storing for daughter, but it goes in three weeks and I will finally have lots more room and be able to set the studio up the way I wanted from the start without working around furniture and boxes that arent supposed to be there... In the meantime I am working on a desk with about 18" x 30" of room :-(  very hard to find things, and work.. cause whatever I want is usually buried under everything else I am using.. lol.. but back to catchup

The 'brief' was to use fabric as a background - and stay within the theme set by the receipent.. Barb Thomas chose 'Crows and Ravens' in Greens... so this is the page I did for her (double sided).  One side is transparency over fabric.. the other is fabric with paper, translucent gesso, collaged images attached with mounting tape so they sit up 3D like from the pages, some rub ons and a stamped twinchie..... its postal tomorrow.. so I hope she likes it :-)

New Project at 2Cre8Art

The February project is up at 2Cre8Art - gorgeous fabric quiltie by Barb Thomas... check out out.. would love to see heaps playing... we draw a random winner at the end of the month from all those who played and left a comment 

Left Brain, Right Brain?

THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. 

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS  
uses logic 
detail oriented 
facts rule 
words and language 
present and past 
math and science 
can comprehend 
knowing 
acknowledges 
order/pattern perception 
knows object name 
reality based 
forms strategies 
practical 
safe 

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS 
uses feeling 
"big picture" oriented 
imagination rules 
symbols and images 
present and future 
philosophy & religion 
can "get it" (i.e. meaning) 
believes 
appreciates 
spatial perception 
knows object function 
fantasy based 
presents possibilities 
impetuous 
risk taking

please leave a comment... love to know what you are ... btw.. I am a 'right' brainer

ATC Challenges

I entered some ATCs in the ATC Theme of the Month this year at VicStampers and won this month's with my 'square'.  Previous months have been use a circle, use an arrow, a crown, a rectangle etc., and everyone votes on their favourite.. winner gets to keep all the atcs.  This was my winning entry for the month...

Took Maggie off to puppy school on saturday for her second lesson, if they had doggie dunce caps she would be wearing one in the corner vbg.  Was VERY determined not to drop and wriggled and yelped when forced to do so.  Plunked her little bottom on the floor and refused to budge during 'social walking' .... think she was still sulking from being forced to the floor during the 'drop' session cause she will walk on the lead normally LOL

She is growing.. getting much taller.. and sooooo good at jumping up onto the couch to get things put out of her way lol.

Challenging Blogs - Embrace the Face

Well, this started off all excitement plus, was to answer a challenge on Embrace The Face challenge blog ..

I started by using the book by Kelly Rae Roberts as my guide and did the background with acrylics.. which turned out super! ( I thought) very good instructions and great step by step pics.  The problems started when I ran out of instructions and pics and had to leap off on my own.

Tree went ok ... though it took a few days before I was happy with it - but at least I didnt paint over it like I did a dozen times with the face! Definitely need face lessons!  I think the one that I was finally 'satisfied' with (happy is too strong a word vbg) was about face #5.... its watercolour pencils and fine liner pens over the many layers of acrylic paint lol.

The collaged butterflies and rub on words came together really quickly.. its just that face! agggghhhhhhh!!! 

On a Roll

Two posts in one day!! I'm on fire LOL

Realised I was a week late with my twinchie for Small World of Inchies as this week is now Music so having a lovely Sunday to myself with no likehood of visitors I have spent the day playing and creating... (no likelihood because I know friends are busy today and both children are away on holidays son is in Mallacoota and daughter flew out this morning for Uluru).

I made the Music Twinchie using an image of Enya as the challenge was to do Music that inspires you and I usually have Enya playing when I am creating.  Later in the afternoon, after an email from Jo Wholohan to let me know about their Embrace the Face challenge blog I started that on vbg.  Had a very enjoyable afternoon playing with paints and brushes which I hadnt done in ages (like several years lol) Had forgotten how much I did enjoy playing with paint. 

I followed the instructions in Kelly Rae Roberts book for the background... then started on the main part.. dont know how that will turn out - but following the project in Kelly's book ..I was very happy with the background

And just because its been a few days since I was a proud mamma and put up pics of Maggie.. here is one of her.  She is really developing a little personality now... is very playful.. .drags her teddy bear around with her, chases balls and is finally starting to know her name. 

She has two beds, (she has been promoted from the drawer LOL) one under my computer desk and one under the craft desk, and she follows me from one desk to another and hops in her bed vbg.

Challenge Blogs

I have found that there are now quite a few blogs out there setting 'creativity' challenges of one sort or another... (see the links to the side) and have decided to 'try' to do at least one challenge a week from that big box of scrap paper and left over images.. though this week I cheated a bit and printed new images vbg.

  Creative Wednesday carried their challenge over from last week which was fine by me as I never got around to doing it last week...theirs was a banner/pennant/bunting whatever people want to call it vbg.  I made a pirate themed peice and will give it to my grand nephew Jack who is a big Jack Sparrow fan.... anything jack or pirates he loves LOL.  The pirate hat and words 'aye aye' are rub ons from Hambly... just love rub ons and you will usually spot them on anything I do lol

And Small World of Twinchies also had a challenge that appealed this week... a twinchie with a 'sisters' theme....  love doing twinchies... they are super quick and the right size for the bits and bobs left over from other projects. I stamped some paper, sat the girls on a row of music notes, added some rub ons and a word, black gems on the music not dots (sorry not musically 'literate' LOL) and rubbed the edges with bronze shiva stick.